manifestdict: drop empty-string argument when creating empty manifest
manifestdict() creates an empty manifestdict, so let's consistently
use that instead of explicitly parsing an empty string (which does
result in an empty manifest).
test branch selection options
$ hg init branch
$ cd branch
$ hg branch a
marked working directory as branch a
(branches are permanent and global, did you want a bookmark?)
$ echo a > foo
$ hg ci -d '0 0' -Ama
adding foo
$ echo a2 > foo
$ hg ci -d '0 0' -ma2
$ hg up 0
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ hg branch c
marked working directory as branch c
(branches are permanent and global, did you want a bookmark?)
$ echo c > foo
$ hg ci -d '0 0' -mc
$ hg tag -l z
$ cd ..
$ hg clone -r 0 branch branch2
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 1 changesets with 1 changes to 1 files
updating to branch a
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ cd branch2
$ hg up 0
0 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ hg branch b
marked working directory as branch b
(branches are permanent and global, did you want a bookmark?)
$ echo b > foo
$ hg ci -d '0 0' -mb
$ hg up 0
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ hg --encoding utf-8 branch æ
marked working directory as branch \xc3\xa6 (esc)
(branches are permanent and global, did you want a bookmark?)
$ echo ae1 > foo
$ hg ci -d '0 0' -mae1
$ hg up 0
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ hg --encoding utf-8 branch -f æ
marked working directory as branch \xc3\xa6 (esc)
(branches are permanent and global, did you want a bookmark?)
$ echo ae2 > foo
$ hg ci -d '0 0' -mae2
created new head
$ hg up 0
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ hg branch -f b
marked working directory as branch b
(branches are permanent and global, did you want a bookmark?)
$ echo b2 > foo
$ hg ci -d '0 0' -mb2
created new head
unknown branch and fallback
$ hg in -qbz
abort: unknown branch 'z'!
[255]
$ hg in -q ../branch#z
2:f25d57ab0566
$ hg out -qbz
abort: unknown branch 'z'!
[255]
in rev c branch a
$ hg in -qr c ../branch#a
1:dd6e60a716c6
2:f25d57ab0566
$ hg in -qr c -b a
1:dd6e60a716c6
2:f25d57ab0566
out branch .
$ hg out -q ../branch#.
1:b84708d77ab7
4:65511d0e2b55
$ hg out -q -b .
1:b84708d77ab7
4:65511d0e2b55
out branch . non-ascii
$ hg --encoding utf-8 up æ
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ hg --encoding latin1 out -q ../branch#.
2:df5a44224d4e
3:4f4a5125ca10
$ hg --encoding latin1 out -q -b .
2:df5a44224d4e
3:4f4a5125ca10
clone branch b
$ cd ..
$ hg clone branch2#b branch3
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 3 changesets with 3 changes to 1 files (+1 heads)
updating to branch b
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ hg -q -R branch3 heads b
2:65511d0e2b55
1:b84708d77ab7
$ hg -q -R branch3 parents
2:65511d0e2b55
$ rm -rf branch3
clone rev a branch b
$ hg clone -r a branch2#b branch3
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 3 changesets with 3 changes to 1 files (+1 heads)
updating to branch a
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ hg -q -R branch3 heads b
2:65511d0e2b55
1:b84708d77ab7
$ hg -q -R branch3 parents
0:5b65ba7c951d
$ rm -rf branch3